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Scientists engineer crops to conserve water, resist drought
Claire Benjamin
Agriculture already monopolizes 90 percent of global freshwater—yet production still needs to dramatically increase to feed and fuel this century’s growing population. For the…
Students develop wireless monitoring system for beehives
Heather Coit
Beekeepers face challenges when they monitor the health of their honeybee colonies, and winter poses increased risk because opening a hive in cooler temperatures to collect…
CABBI Celebrates Official Launch with Talks, Tours, Science Meeting
Tony Mancuso
The Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) officially launched as a new U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Center with a celebration on Feb…
Scientists monitor crop photosynthesis, performance using invisible light
Claire Benjamin
Twelve-foot metal poles with long outstretched arms dot a Midwestern soybean field to monitor an invisible array of light emitted by crops. This light can reveal the plants’…
DOE grants $10.6 million to produce more biodiesel, biojet fuel
Claire Benjamin
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded the University of Illinois a $10.6 million, five-year grant to transform two of the most productive crops in America into…
Researchers use economic concept to understand microbial communities
Emily Scott
A popular economic concept is helping IGB researchers understand how microbial communities operate.
Microbial communities are in our bodies, in the soil, in forests and…
Omics Nanotechnology for Cancer Precision Medicine
Janet McGreevy
MNTL & IGB Team Up to Develop Use-at-Home Sample Collection Assay for Cancer Patients
Courtesy of Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory.
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IGB Director Awarded 2018 Wolf Prize in Agriculture
IGB Director Gene Robinson has been awarded the 2018 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for “leading the genomics revolution in the organismal and population biology of the honey bee…
Reach out and feed someone: Automated system finds rapid honey bee networks
Claudia Lutz
“Only connect”—E. M. Forster’s pithy quotation captures an essential feature of any society, human or animal: the patterns of interactions among individuals out of which…
Two IGB faculty members selected for distinguished chairs
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Four faculty members, including two from the IGB, have been selected for endowed chairs deemed to be among the most distinguished honors on the campus. Stephen P. Long, a…
Novel chip-based gene expression tool analyzes RNA quickly and accurately
Laura Schmitt
A University of Illinois and Mayo collaboration has demonstrated a novel gene expression analysis technique that can accurately measure levels of RNA quickly and directly from…
Agricultural fungicide attracts honey bees, study finds
Diana Yates
When given the choice, honey bee foragers prefer to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil over sugar syrup alone, researchers report in the journal…